Yoshida Brothers

Yoshida Brothers wiki

I stumbled upon these guys randomly on Youtube. Then googled them up on wiki.I love tradition fusion with modern music, I find it fascinating. On a less fascinating note, the Calgary Stampede started. A sort of cowboy festival for the drunk, a tradition held dearly by the denizens of this province.

Yoshida Brothers - Rising (PV)

Mag'har Exalted

I can has Talbuks.

Blog of Obligatory Updates and Thoughts

Well, seeing as no one reads this.. (>_>
Maybe some archaeologist in the future will find and read this and be interested in the ongoings of my daily life as perhaps one day I will turn out to be a historical figure..

Well, I'm still at the Cheesecake. Approaching 1 year now. When I tell the newcomers at work that I've almost been there for a year, they just nod slowly and say things like "Well, it's a living." or "Really? Sad.." But this is always the way. You don't pick the job, the job picks you. You might think at some point, you have a good handful of savings, you can go pick what you want to do, but what you want to do is something only the resourceful can get into, with a stack of certificates thicker than yours and more network of people bigger than yours.

I'm still not sure what I want to do. Well, I do know, it's just it isn't really a "job" per se.
I just want to learn things until my brain explodes. Do people get paid to learn? Probably not. Learning is what you do on the side, while jobs are repetitive patterns of mundane tasks. It might be new and fun in the first few weeks, but in the end, it's all the same.

I don't know why North America associate school and learning with a negative image. Like people here seriously hate learning. Probably because their ideal of fun is injecting themselves with narcotics and mass amounts of alcohol, then proceed to unlearn everything they know in life. What a bunch of losers. Not naming names, but these kids are the downfall of evolution really. To solve this problem, I will require serial proxy murders. XD

Have the government create an IQ test, anyone below the score of 150 gets sent to a special camp where they will be sorted into giant cargo containers and shot into space.

But then the plot of Starcraft will happen, the container will crashland somewhere, but with dumb people instead of criminals. They'll sort out the strongest of them and kill/eat the rest, and start a small society of these big dumb people, who will eventually dominate a sector of space and have a galactic war with the smarter people back on Earth, or whereever we were living then. But being the more strategic of the bunch, we will eventually decimate their forces through thinking and planning. Yeah, that's the way it'll go..

New facebook url!

Now it's http://www.facebook.com/misque!

Clear + 蛇足's cover of Magnet has made me gay

Magnet

か細い火が心の端に灯る
いつの間にか燃え広がる熱情
私の蝶不規則に飛び回り
あなたの手に鱗粉を付けた

絡み合う指ほどいて唇から舌へと
許されない事ならば尚更燃え上がるの

抱き寄せて欲しい確かめて欲しい
間違いなど無いんだと思わせて
キスをして塗り替えて欲しい
魅惑の時に酔いしれ溺れていたいの

束縛してもっと必要として
愛しいなら執着を見せつけて
「おかしい」のがたまらなく好きになる
行けるトコまで行けばいいよ

迷い込んだ心なら簡単に融けてゆく
優しさなんて感じる暇など無い位に

繰り返したのはあの夢じゃなくて
紛れも無い現実の私達
触れてから戻れないと知るそれでいいの
誰よりも大切なあなた

夜明けが来ると不安で泣いてしまう私に
「大丈夫」と囁いたあなたも泣いていたの？

抱き寄せて欲しい確かめて欲しい
間違いなど無いんだと思わせて
キスをして塗り替えて欲しい魅惑の時に
酔いしれ溺れたい

引き寄せてマグネットのように
例えいつか離れても巡り会う
触れていて戻れなくていいそれでいいの
誰よりも大切なあなた

A slender flame burns at the edge of my heart
Without warning, it spreads into a burning passion
My butterfly, flitting around it chaotically
Scales dropping into your hand

I am wrapped around your finger from the lips to the tongue
Even if this is something that cannot be allowed the flames jump higher still

I want to embrace you, I want you to tell me
That you don't think this is a mistake
I want you to kiss me, I want you to remake me
I want to drown in this moment of captivation

Every moment, it's harder to restrain myself
If this is love, I want to wear it on my sleeve
The "strange feeling" turns into an unbearable longing
I would follow you to the end of forever

If my heart goes astray I will be easily relieved
I feel the tenderness

That dream has never come again
There is no chance in our reality
If we touch, I know we can never go back and that's just fine...
You are everything in the world to me

Anxiety arrives with the dawn to find me still crying
When you whispered "it's all right" did I hear tears in your voice, too?

I want to embrace you, I want you to tell me
That you don't think this is a mistake
I want you to kiss me, I want you to remake me
I want to drown in this moment of captivation

I am drawn to you like a magnet
Even if I left, we would find each other again
I've touched you, I can never go back and that's just fine.
You are everything in the world to me


Also available at Youtube in case you don't have a Nicodou account: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDo4D2qOvKA

A random blog entry

Well, looks like we'll miss Chimaera Thursday event again. Next month perhaps.

We've both been playing a lot of Team Fortress 2.

Normally, I don't play that much first person shooters. But this one is just that damn awesome! I think it's the art style, the animation, the humour, and the ingenious class definition between the 9 classes. The voices really makes character depth where a normal first person shooter would fall short because there is none.

Kelly plays Sniper and Demo a lot.

I think it's because of the accents they have. Sniper is an Aussie. He has an unlockable weapon which are jars of urine he can throw at people. XD













And Demo is a black Scottish cyclops. Apparently he blew up his parents and one of his eyes when he was a kid. Being a Scotsman, he's also a drunk. His melee weapon is a whiskey bottle. When he crits, he shatters the bottle on your head and bring out a new one. XD


















Personally, I'm a fan of Spy, Engineer and Pyro. Who doesn't love Pyro? It's a rule that all gas-mask wearing characters from any movie, games or novels are cool. Afterall, that's why I own a gasmask. Because I'm cool. XDDD

TF2 and boredom

Well, I bought Team Fortress 2 for Kelly. But of course her stupid wireless card is too slow for Steam apparently, and it won't log in to install. (>_<)#

So it's on my computer instead. I also go Bioshock for $19, but it also wouldn't run on either computers. But I'm keeping it as I don't know if when it's too old, it won't be in stores anymore and I can't buy it later even if I upgrade my computer.

I need more friends. Especially more friends who plays the same games as me. (^^;;
Between waiting on 56助 to reply and snail mail, playing WoW and now TF2, watching SDF Macross and reinstalling Starcraft, looking up new user produced Vocaloid songs and videos, there's still plenty of time I'm doing nothing. I guess I'm just a boring person. (T_T

Or maybe it's the location. Boring town. Well I got Thursday off. So maybe I can make Chimaera this time, perhaps meet some interesting people to stalk.

Otafest 2009

So today was the first day of the convention Otafest 2009.
I wasn't planning to dress up, but did anyway. No cosplay though.
Kelly works a table at the con and made a ton of monies! And will continue to make more monies tomorrow!
I went around and took some pictures of cosplayers, and watched 2 episodes of the episodic Macross Plus and 2 episodes of MacF before their DVD got screwed up.

There's not as much fat smelly people as I imagined. I guess it's getting better in Calgary.
You can pretty much garanteed that the guys that looks all normal and has a camera is there for PANCHIRA. You'll never find a spot in town with so many young girls in really really short skirts all at the same place at the same time, than at a anime convention. (^_^;;;;;;;;;)

I'll post pictures when I'm not lazy.......

Paolo Nutini = Macy Gray?

Paolo Nutini - Loving You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQPhcAqb31s

Doesn't this guy sound like Macy Gray? Except he's a young white dude!

Macy Gray - When I See You:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh4Ym0RYaso

Work is fun. =_= Fiery deaths for all.

My arm was on fire today, at work. (>_<)!

This is what happened:
1) Somehow my pan-flipping towel was soaked in grease/oil.
2) I was making shrimp for the thai shrimp salad. Naturally there's a lot of oil in it to keep it from sticking.
3) Naturally when the heat is high, the pan catches on fire. This is normal.
4) The cloth I was holding the pan with also catches on fire, as does the rest of my grease-film-covered right arm. This is not normal, and very painful.

Luckily, only a minor spot on the back of my wrist got a small blister, the rest of my arm is fine. Since I shave my arm hairs anyway, there's nothing to burn off. But it sure hurt when the fire was on my hand. (>_<)#

魅主９

魅主９? wwwww

Technically it'll be pronounced ミスク

"You" medley

I'm on a belated "You" trance lately. Too bad my mic is so suck, or else I'd had sang my own already. Oh well, for the time being, go listen to the 2 hour long "You" medley. It's supposedly not even complete yet, maybe it'll be like 5 hours long when it's done.. @_@




For those unacquainted, "You" is a background music song originally on the soundtrack of the visual novel of ひぐらしのなく頃に (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni /When the Cicadas Cry). It got so famous from all the NicoNicoDouga users singing their own versions of it. Then of course, the company that made the game also produced a billion versions for each character. And now everyone knows the song, but doesn't know where it came from.

Cars I would like if I had too much money

Since mecha don't exist in mass production models yet, these neat looking cars will have to do. (if I had a million dollars XD)

This is the Smart Crossblade.

And this is the Piaggio MP3















I'm not really a car person. But these machines just look too awesome. I approve. (^_^)b

Coffee Addiction: Part 2

I think I've gone beyond the addiction as noted in the previous entry.
I'm starting to think that coffee has created within me a separate personality.
When I'm caffeinated, I act and think differently than uncaffeinated.
It is as if coffee is the big brother figure in my life, telling me that life is worth living and everything's awesome and what not. A sort of encouragement and hope if you will.
When I'm not caffeinated, everything seems bleak and grey, life seem miserable and a big waste of time.

Coffee seem to be the "Kamina" of my life, for the Gurren Lagann reference.
Sad..

Addiction

I started drinking coffee in highschool because there was a Starbucks in the bookstore I used to go loiter on weekends all the time. I really like the taste of it. At least back in the day, that was the reason why I drank coffee daily.

2 shots of espresso in the morning. 2 shots in the evening. Every day.













This continued well into college and post-college years. Until eventually I started having chest pains, so I stopped drinking espresso shots daily.

Only every so often.

But then in the past few years, I've had days where I didn't get access to coffee, I find that I can no longer function as a normal human being. If I have no caffeine intake at all for the day, I become very irritable, and dwell on little things frequently. Become depressed for no reason, and feel a black hole of hopelessness and the feeling of being trapped.

To this end, I feel that I must be addicted to coffee. For without it, I cannot function. At least it's not a narcotic... (;;;>_>)

And so, as advice to anyone under the age of 13, don't start drinking anything addictive until you're at least 20. By then, there's a lesser chance for the substance to enter your bloodstream and become a permanent ingredient in your body's content.

Don't make your life dependent on substances, be it coffee, alcohol or drugs. (T_T)

Dream Job: Onmyouji 陰陽師

Today at work, it was boring.
And thus, I was thinking about what I want to be when I grow up!



And I thought. I love the occult. I love the concept of spirits and alternate realms. I believe in onmyoudo 陰陽道, and 風水. Naturally, one of my dream jobs would be to become a onmyouji (陰陽師)!

Now I just wonder, how does one get into a field like that?
And is it a modern viable job to earn money?
What qualifications would one need? Maybe there's some sort of test to see if you're skilled enough in manipulating the arcane to achieve various feats....

And no, I didn't just came up with this idea because I watched the movie.

Lazy Day

Lets have a lazy day!
It's snowing again outside.
Time to sleep all day!
And play some bass, and eat spouse-made lava cakes, and poke the cat, and play some WoW, and eat chocolates, and sleep more...

(-_-)..

Injury Day

Well, today was busy at work.
I also inflicted a lot of injuries on myself.
First I dropped a cast iron stove-top on my left ankle. (It's bruised now, not surprisingly)
Then I almost did it again an hour after.
Then within the span of 6 hours, I manage to burn/cut/spill hot oil on my hands and arms.
Later, I got a cramp in my left palm that was the single most painful thing I've experienced on my left hand.

Work is fun.
#(=_=)

Calgary Weather

So this morning was pretty sunny, and fairly warm with a little bit of windchill.



No problem, just throw on a light coat and go outsi-


FUCK!



FUCK YOU, CALGARY WEATHER!!! 凸(>__<)凸
I hate this place...

New hair! Well, kinda new-ish hair.... >.>

Finally took a picture with the new hair. I need to go get it trimmed again, the shaved parts are growing too long, and I still have split ends! (>_<)!

Working in a kitchen again has made my skin all blemmish-y once more, need to remind myself to buy cleansing pads later.

Excuse my housecoat, I didn't want to find fancy clothes just for a photo. ^^;;; This is what I look like at home most of the time anyways.

Huzzah!

Hello, teh world of internetz!
Here I am, blogging again. Let's hope this turns out more successful than my LJ. >.>

I guess I should do some sort of introduction thing, huh. Since unlike Facebook, there's no big About page.

Well, I'm Misque. That's a made up name, because I'm chinese and I don't like my Chinese name. It's phonetically translated into English as "Ng Tsz Chun", which I have no idea how to pronounce, since it only has 1 vowel. @_@ Concurrently I reside in Calgary Alberta, though I wish to move back to Vancouver BC within the next 5 years. Because Calgary really sucks. Everyone's hobbies are limited to alcohol related activities. Drinking. Driving while drunk. Watching movie while drunk. Getting high while drunk. Drinking more while drunk. Dancing badly while drunk. Have long conversations about nothing, while drunk. I don't drink, so I really can't relate with any of these people. It makes me sad to think that they can only enjoy life while drunk.

I'm a pretty big nerd. I think it's a part of being Asian. Though that's a generalization and not all Asians are nerds. We just like things with numbers, no matter what it is, and collecting things. So when you put those two things together, you usually come up with stuff like following shows, collecting trivial facts about fictional lore, knowing everything about many specific topics, collecting pictures, videos, figures, DVDs, games, merchandises... you get the gist.

I'll admit now that I'm おたく. This is my MAL list: http://myanimelist.net/animelist/MisquE
And that's not even half of it, I haven't gone through the database to add more yet. I lurk forums and news sites, I'm sure everyone who spends a lot of time in front of their computer does. I enjoy fixing things, especially mechanical things. I also like experimenting with food. Usually I'm the only person who'll eat the result though. (#_#)

I consider that there's 2 types of people in the world. People who are fans of other people's stuff. And people who make stuff for other people. Usually, the two don't mingle. People who make stuff don't have time to enjoy other people's stuff, because they need all the time they have to promote their products and practice their trade. People who spends all their time being hardcore fans don't have the time or talent to make anything, fanart doesn't count. I myself is a fan who spends all their time enjoying products. I had a phase where I thought I could make something, but nothing ever came to fruitation. Sure, I make small things every now and then, like food, drawings, designs, stories. But I wouldn't consider it a career. I'm happy just being a fan.

Here's some other stuff I'm a big fan of:
- Vocaloid
- Kamen Rider
- Things that smell like oranges
- Objects shaped like food
- IKEA
- Makeup
- いくら
- Cream Soda
- Cats
- PVC Clothing
- Combat Boots
- 萌え
- ツンデレ
- Manly Tears
- Going on epic adventures by myself
- Singing when nobody's around
- Sleeping
- Old World of Darkness
- Sychronized Dancing
- Azerothian Lore
- Watching Trailers (because usually the best parts of the movie are in the trailer)
- Sesame and Taro flavoured stuff
- Purple
- Insects of all kinds
- Deep Sea Fishes
- Mantis Shrimp
- Espresso Truffle from Starbucks

You know what, I think I'm just gonna put one of those favorite-crap memes here, to save me the trouble of having to think about every last thing I'm a fan of. XD

I guess the reason I stopped writing on LJ was because all the people I care to talk to are on Facebook, and Facebook is much faster for simple messages. And even then, if I needed to talk to someone extensively, I'd just type up an email for them. It's more personal that way, and not everyone can eavesdrop on your email like in Facebook.

Hmm. So.. Let's blog about what's on my mind right this second:
Instant coffee. Instant coffee is one of the hardest to make things I've came across. If you use a grain too many, it tastes kinda sour, no matter how much sugar and cafe-mate you put in. If you put too little, then it tastes like McDonalds coffee. Which is like.. brown water. And you can never make it taste like real coffee. EVER! T___T

Fail coffee is fail.
That's all for now, I suppose. じゃ～！